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Debating our Evergreen Batman Omnibus List – LIVE on Near Mint Condition

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Near Mint Condition Evergreen Batman Omnibus ListAre you ready to rumble? Tomorrow – Thursday May 23 @ 6:30 PM US ET, I’m live with Near Mint Condition to share my Evergreen Batman Omnibus List – that means the Batman books should never go out of print!

Of course, I’m not a noted Batman fan, so what do I have to contribute to this debate? Well, over the past several weeks of DC Omnibus mapping I made time to read a handful of issues from every single Batman & Bat-Family omnibus ever printed by DC. Not only did I want to make an informed vote, I wanted to be able to joust with all of our many merry guests!

I’ll be co-hosting this debate with Uncanny Omar of Near Mint Condition, featuring  Jess the Omnidog, Lars of Mad Norwegian Press, Jake from The Brave & The Boys, Wonder Maddie from NMC’s Old Reader / New Reader, and even more distinguished panelists. We will each share our 3 picks for Batman & Bat-Family evergreen omnibus volumes… and then we’ll fight tooth and nail over our officially endorsed Evergreen Batman Omnibus List of 10 books. Plus, viewers on the live stream will get to have their say to correct our mistakes and choose their own fan vote!

It’s the stream that is half serious recommendations, half a cut-throat game show of all of us trying to block other people’s recommendations so that all of our own make the list.

Tune in to Near Mint Condition on YouTube tomorrow to find out!

Debating our Evergreen X-Men Omnibus List – LIVE on Near Mint Condition

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Are you ready to rumble? Today, I’m live with Near Mint Condition to share my Evergreen X-Men Omnibus List – that means the X-Men books should never go out of print!

Omar of Near Mint Condition, Jess the Omnidog, Lars of Mad Norwegian Press, cosplayer and X-Men mega-fan Ødfel, GLAAD-Award Winning author Joe Glass, and more distinguished panelists will share their lists, too… and then we’ll fight tooth and nail over our officially endorsed Evergreen X-Men Omnibus List of 10 books. Plus, viewers on the live stream will get to have their say to correct our mistakes!

It’s the show that is half serious recommendations, half a cut-throat game show of all of us trying to block other people’s recommendations so that all of our own make the list. Will we allow Omar to get Uncanny X-Men Vol. 1 on the Evergreen X-Men Omnibus List, or will we blockade him with votes for Phoenix Vol. 1? Will side books like X-Factor and X-Force make the cut, or will we just stick to Uncanny X-Men and X-Men? And, what about Wolverine!?

Tune in to Near Mint Condition on YouTube to find out!

A List of Every 2024 Marvel Omnibus! (and January 2025, too)

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This is a list of EVERY 2024 Marvel Omnibus (and January 2025, too!) complete with ISBNs, explanations of what’s in the book, and links to the comic guides and reading orders that contain their full contents. That’s 126(!) books.

This past Sunday I was overjoyed to get to spend the afternoon with my dear friend Omar on Near Mint Condition (as well as a live chat full of Minties) as we recapped the 42 new and reprinted Marvel omnibuses solicited for August through the end of this year (plus January 2025).

I was going to simply recap those books to you again here in text. Then I thought… maybe we should do MORE. What use is an omnibus list that randomly starts in August? And what use is the same list of books you could get on a Wikipedia page?

So, instead, here is a list of every 2024 Marvel Omnibus (and January 2025, too!) with links to the Crushing Comics guides that contain their full contents (and how to collect the material around them) as well as my thoughts on the significance of most of the books.

Note that all release dates are tentative right up until they arrive! We’ve seen some books be delayed by a week or two in recent years, or even as much as six months in the cases of some of the early-2024 books that were originally solicited for 2023.

Are you ready to feel your wallets and bank accounts ache as we look at this massive list of every 2024 Marvel Omnibus? Let’s go! [Read more…] about A List of Every 2024 Marvel Omnibus! (and January 2025, too)

Debating our Evergreen DC Omnibus List – LIVE on Near Mint Condition

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Are you ready to rumble? Tomorrow, on Thursday 22 February at 5:30 pm US ET I’m live with Near Mint Condition to share my Evergreen DCOmnibus List – that means the books should never go out of print!

Omar of Near Mint Condition, Jess the Omnidog, Lars of Mad Norwegian Press, and more distinguished panelists will share their lists, too… and then we’ll fight tooth and nail over our officially endorsed Evergreen DC Omnibus List of 10 books.

It’s the show that is half serious recommendations, half a cut-throat game show of all of us trying to block other people’s recommendations so that all of our own make the list. How many Batman books will make the cut? Can we manage to shut out all of Omar’s choices for the second stream in a row?

Tune in to Near Mint Condition on YouTube find out!

Near Mint Condition: Marvel announces THREE new Volume 3 omnibuses out in late 2023

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As I was in the final pass of editing on that Drag Race Belgique post I got a notification about a new video on the Near Mint Condition channel, so I decided to take quick break from drag to catch up on Omar’s newest comics news.

OMG, I am so glad that I did! Omar’s Sunday morning Near Mint Condition video announces not one, not two, but THREE brand new Marvel omnibuses coming out later this year. Two of them are X-books, and all three of them are third volumes in their omnibus lines!

I’d never steal Omar’s thunder by spoiling his announcements within an hour of them being made, but here’s a hint: If you know what my favorite X-series of all time is, and if you have been following my recent guide updates and announcements about some young and new heroes, then you’ll know why I am so excited about these announcements.

I’ll react more to all three of them, including their delightful mapping, a little later in the week. It’s 2am here in New Zealand right now, and I have a comic guide to finish tomorrow (well, today, but you get my drift)!